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15 TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION AND ENERGY IN AGRICULTURE, Antalya, Turkey, 29 October - 01 November 2023, pp.37
Conventional tillage; it is an application where most of the plant residues are buried or burned under the
ground, and the plant residues on the soil surface are less than 15% after planting. With the environmental
awareness that developed after the 1970s, alternative methods have been developed that minimize the field
traffic and soil tillage without overturning it. In this method, which is defined as conservation tillage, the main
criterion is that the field surface is covered with at least 30% plant residue. Reduced tillage forms the subgroup
of conservation tillage. In this system, chisel or disc tools are generally used for primary tillage, harrow disc
or cultivators are used for secondary tillage and seedbed preparation. In tillage application, no-tillage is done
before planting after the previous crop harvest. Sowing is done directly on the previous crop stubble without
seedbed preparation. In this research; no-tillage, reduced tillage and conventional tillage methods were tested
in terms of plant distribution and plant emergence uniformity. The mean emergence date, emergence rate
index and percentage of emergence values were calculated for that. In the research, the best mean emergence
time value was determined in the reduced tillage method with 15.18 days, the highest emergence rate index
and percentage of emergence value were determined in the conventional tillage method with 20.7 plants/day
m2 and 70.4%, respectively.